Scholarships for High School Seniors
If you are getting ready to enter your senior year of high school, now is the time to begin researching scholarships for high school seniors. Many scholarships available to seniors, are due early your senior year, so you need to take initiative and begin early so you won’t be rushing at the last minute and miss out on the opportunity of free money for college. Many scholarships require essays, so you can work on those over the summer, although that may sound like a bore, just keep thinking about it as free money and tweak those essays to help give you the advantage over others. There are several hundreds, if not thousands of scholarships available to high school seniors, it just takes time and research to sniff them out. Remember to apply for as many as you can to increase your chances to turn a win.
Scholarships Available to Seniors in High School
Everyone has heard of Coca Cola, but did you know they hand out several hefty scholarships to high school seniors for college every year? This scholarship opens to high school seniors every August and the deadline to apply is October 31st of your senior year. This awesome award program is highly competitive, but awards 50 $20,000 and 200 $10,000 scholarships annually! Unfortunately, this scholarship is not available to children or grandchildren of those whom are employed by the Coca Cola Company, but if you fall into this category; have your relative check into educational funding that is available to relatives of employees. To be eligible for one of the awards you must be a current high school senior (may be home-schooled), attending in the United States (or select DoD schools), a U.S. Citizen, U.S. National or Permanent Resident, temporary resident (in a legalization program), refugee, asylee, Cuban-Haitian Entrant, or humanitarian parolee, anticipating completion of high school diploma at the time of application, planning to pursue a degree at an accredited U.S. post-secondary institution, and carry a minimum 3.00 gpa at the end of the junior year of high school.
The process is lengthy, but remember due to the amount of awards, these are highly sought after scholarships, so you must take your time and pay attention to detail. You will complete a five page application that will include a brief biography including your name, address, etc. as well as graduation information and school info. You will need the CEEB code which is the six-digit code used for ACT and SAT registration, if you do not know it, ask your school counselor. If you are home schooled use the code 111111. Any questions related to ethnicity, disability, and family income are voluntary and do not effect the selection process, but is useful for comparative purposes. The second page includes school activities, which will span over your four years of high school, grades 9-12. There are preliminary questions that will help the Scholars Foundation evaluate those students who are limited in their activities by school policy. You will also be able to tell about awards, honors, special skills, or talents in detail. The third page consists of community activities, remember that these may not be duplicates from any previous activities listed in previous questions (such as page 2), these will be organized by grade level you were in when accomplished. The fourth page is in regard to your academic information, it is recommended you consult with your guidance counselor to ensure this portion is filled out accurately and completely. During this portion, be sure to specify honors, advanced placement, international baccalaureate curriculum. You will have to provide every detail, down to the grades received in courses completed and listing courses to be taken senior year. You will need to provide your official class rank per end of your junior year via numeric class rank or percentile. The final page of the application process is your employment information, per grade year, average number hours worked during the school year and summer. You will also list your anticipated schedule through your senior year. The application process is stored online, so once the application opens in August, you may begin, save and update as needed until application closes on October 31st- don’t forget to submit by this date! To obtain all the details of the application and selection process please visit the scholarship website.
Healthy Lifestyles Scholarship for Seniors
The Healthy Lifestyles Scholarship is another award available to high school seniors, but is far less involved than the previous one discussed. This scholarship does require your pen and pad, and two essays totaling 1,500 words. To be eligible you must be under 25 years of age as of May 30, 2012 , a high school senior or in your first year of college, and be a resident of the United States or Canada. This scholarship promotes healthy living and the effect on healthy lifestyles, especially while in school. The essays to complete are the following: In 1,000 words or less answer “Why is a healthy lifestyle important in school?” and in 500 words or less describe your career plans, goals, and personal ambitions. The winner will be awarded $5000 and is selected to whom provides the most comprehensive answers. The deadline for submission is 5:00 pm EST on May 30, 2012. Please format your essays in Microsoft Word, if word is not available to you, you may access Google Office the latter is free to use on the internet.
Remember, there are several scholarships available to you as a high school senior; ranging from very involved to fairly simplistic, you just have to look. Another great piece of advice is to go online and apply for federal aid, also known as the FAFSA , this will award you grant money if you are eligible, and some scholarships may ask for you to prove financial need or may ask you to apply, so why not get this out of the way. If you are reading this and you are in your junior year, remember it is never too soon to begin the hunt on scholarships for high school seniors.
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